It's impossible not to be carried away by the rich arterial force of this storytelling.
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02/19/08
Gone With the Wind (1939)
97 %
Reviews Counted: 58 Fresh: 56 Rotten:2 Average Rating: 8.7/10
Consensus:
Filmed and presented on a scale not seen in modern productions, Gone with the Wind is, if not the definitive Hollywood film, then certainly near the top of the list.
Runtime: 3 hrs 58 mins
Synopsis: Hot-tempered, self-centered, part-Irish Southern beauty Scarlett O'Hara, played to the teeth by Vivien Leigh, loves the gentlemanly Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard). Smug, rebellious, honest, blockade-running profiteer Rhett Butler, portrayed gracefully and naturally by Clark... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel, Leslie Howard
Director: Victor Fleming
Story: Margaret Mitchell
Screenwriter: Sidney Howard
Composer: Adolph Deutsch, Max Steiner, Hugo Friedhofer, Heinz Roemheld
Producer: David O. Selznick
Story: Margaret Mitchell
Screenwriter: Sidney Howard
Composer: Adolph Deutsch, Max Steiner, Hugo Friedhofer, Heinz Roemheld
Producer: David O. Selznick
Reviews
Top Critic
Grand old Hollywood at its most magnificent and melodramatic. Say what you like about the soapy characterisation and plotting, the spectacle flattens all in its wake.
02/19/08
Top Critic
What more can one say about this much-loved, much discussed blockbuster?
06/24/06
Top Critic
Well, even if it is essentially four hours about a selfish, silly cow, it's impeccably well made, and should be seen by anyone with even a passing interest in romance or movies.
02/02/05
Top Critic
Clear an evening and indulge yourself in one of the few films that can justifiably be called an epic.
11/12/01
Top Critic
One of the truly great films, destined for record-breaking boxoffice business everywhere.
02/19/08
Top Critic
A critic-proof movie if there ever was one: it isn't all that good, but somehow it's great.
12/12/06
Terrificly acted, staged and designed, Gone WIth the Wind remains one of the greatest period epics ever filmed.
10/17/06
Despite the star power of Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, Wind has lost some of its bluster, yet it survives as a glorious Technicolored window into America's dusty, bygone past.
07/12/06
Forget it, no Civil War film has made a nickel, producer Irving Thalberg told Louis B. Mayer about a melodrama that would break records and become a unique cultural phenom
06/27/05
Top Critic
It's so full of iconic moments of plotting and dialog that a feature film could be edited just out of the most quotable moments.
11/12/04
...producer David O. Selznick's crowning achievement and a film that stands up as one of the screen's finest classics.
11/05/04
One of the classic films that defined American cinema, Gone With the Wind is a rare example of a collaboration involving hundreds of talents and egos that turned out great.
10/31/04
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